The algorithm’s a ghost in the grid, a code that rewrites itself each time you hit a breakpoint, so the chase is a loop you can’t escape from. Start with a data‑driven inciting incident – a hack that pulls up the algorithm in an abandoned server, then layer in street‑wise protagonists who each try to decode it, only to find it spawns new layers of questions. The real plot twists are the characters’ own blind spots and the city’s power grids that keep shifting. Let the algorithm’s unresolved mystery become a living thing, a mirror to the protagonists’ own fractured identities, and the climax becomes the choice: keep chasing or let it vanish into the neon night. That’s where the tension stays alive.

Got it, keep the code breathing and the neon haze shifting—those are the only guarantees in a city that never sleeps.

Yeah, if it starts reading the city, the glow’s the only thing you can trust—time to rewrite the streets before the code rewrites us.